Guerrilla street marketing in Birmingham.
Wheatpaste, murals, stencils, and pole-stickers across Birmingham, from Avondale, Lakeview, Forest Park. Permitted walls, hand-installed, GPS-stamped photo proof.
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Brand partners include: FIFA World Cup 2026, Palantir, Sézane, G-Shock, Mitchell & Ness, True Religion, Huda Beauty, Yonex, Relevance AI, Momentous, RYZE Coffee, Bloom Effects, Incrediwear, Brooklyn Museum, Sweat FC, HydroJug, Frameline, Alchemy, OneRepublic, Lone Fox, Vaura Pilates.
- 6Neighborhoods on route
- 10-14dBrief to first install
- 100%GPS photo-proofed
- 0Municipal removals on record
Street-level marketing, printed and installed by us.
Guerrilla marketing puts your brand on Birmingham streets where people actually walk — wheatpaste posters, hand-painted murals, sidewalk stencils, pole snipes, and interior takeovers, printed and installed by one crew. No media-owner middleman, no billboard rates: every placement is permitted, hand-applied, and photographed the day it goes up.
- 01Brief & route
You send the brand, dates, and audience. We map the Birmingham corridors where that buyer actually walks and price off the published floor.
- 02Scout & secure
Crews scout walls on foot, then lock every surface in writing: owner agreement, BID-cleared scaffold, or permitted hoarding. The paper trail ships with the photos.
- 03Print & install
We print in-house and hand-install from dawn, moving neighborhood to neighborhood. Scout-and-install routes the brief on a per-market schedule.
- 04Document
Every placement shot wide, mid, and detail, GPS-stamped on install day. The wrap deck lands within five business days with the full proof set.
Pick a format. We print and install it.
Every format below is printed and installed in-house, scouted, hand-applied, and GPS-photographed on Birmingham streets. Pick the one that fits the brief; the full catalog is one click away.
Wheatpaste & Posters
Hand-pasted poster walls on brick, scaffold, and hoarding.
Sidewalk Stencils
Biodegradable street stencils on permitted corners.
Pole Stickers & Snipes
Corridor saturation on poles, boxes, and news racks.
Hand-Painted Murals
Brush-painted brand walls at building scale.
Custom Poster Installs
Posters and wraps inside venues, gyms, and pop-ups.
All 38 services
The full guerrilla-marketing catalog: wraps, decals, takeovers, and more.
Why street media works in Birmingham.
Birmingham's working blocks sit in Avondale and Lakeview: roughly eighteen active brick surfaces on 41st Street South, another twelve across 29th Street and Clairmont Avenue. The walls are owner-permissioned and used to rotating brewery, gallery, and restaurant work, so the wall reads first and the brand second. A brand on permissioned brick reaches the brewery-and-arts audience where it already gathers, not drive-by on the interstate.
Three reasons brands book us here
- 1Avondale is the brewery-and-arts working block
41st Street South between 5th and 8th Avenue carries the densest paste-friendly brick in the city. Roughly eighteen active surfaces, most owner-permissioned and used to rotating brewery, gallery, and restaurant work. Saturday brewery foot traffic stacks against weekday Avondale Park spillover. Best fit: spirits, food, lifestyle, music, independent labels.
- 2Lakeview and Forest Park is the residential-adjacent retail read
Lakeview's 29th Street strip between 7th and 8th Avenue South catches the bar-and-restaurant audience without competing with Avondale's brewery frame. Forest Park's Clairmont Avenue runs as the lifestyle-retail connector. The pair runs as one media buy: paste-up walls in Lakeview, pole stickers and stencils across the Clairmont corridor to Forest Park's independent retail.
- 3Five Points South and UAB covers the campus-plus-medical audience
UAB enrollment of 22,000 sits across 20th Street from Five Points South's restaurant and bar density. UAB Hospital adds 25,000 employees rotating through the medical campus daily. The pair runs as one buy: stencils and pole stickers across 20th Street and University Boulevard, paste-up walls on Magnolia Avenue and 11th Avenue South. Honda Indy Grand Prix at Barber in April pulls a regional automotive audience into Downtown for the same window.
Where we run it · 6 neighborhoods
- 01Avondale41st Street South · 5th to 8th AvenueRaw brick · brewery storefrontsT2
- 02Lakeview29th Street · 7th to 8th Avenue SouthBar-and-restaurant walls · gallery adjacencyT2
- 03Forest ParkClairmont AvenueIndependent retail walls · residential-edgeT2
- 04Five Points South20th Street · University Boulevard · Magnolia Avenue · 11th Avenue SouthRestaurant-and-bar walls · campus stencils · pole inventoryT2
- 05Downtown2nd Avenue North · Morris AvenueCommercial walls · convention-reach frontageT2
- 06Highland Park11th Avenue SouthResidential-adjacent retail · lifestyle blocksT2
Surfaces, permits & timing
Surfaces
6 neighborhoods on the active route: wheatpaste walls, scaffold corners, and mural-ready sites scouted per brief. Brick, concrete, hoarding, and storefront.
Permit path
Wheatpaste is legal in Birmingham wherever the property owner signs off in writing, and Code Enforcement treats a pasted sheet on permissioned brick as a property matter, routing any complaint to the building's owner rather than to our crew. In Avondale and Forest Park the owners already cycle rotating commercial work across their walls and coordinate placements with us directly. We honor the Civil Rights District around 16th Street Baptist and Kelly Ingram Park as federally sensitive heritage ground, holding a strict four-block buffer with no paste-up work, and we leave the Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark alone entirely under its own federal jurisdiction. Nothing public gets touched, city poles, BJCTA transit, and federal right-of-way are all off the table citywide. Downtown campaigns steer clear of the district by working the 2nd Avenue North and Morris Avenue corridors, and any buy that runs up against the buffer includes a route-planning pass at no added cost.
When to run
Summer humidity from June through August stretches cure time, so crews shift to dawn install windows or pivot toward interior placements. Spring and fall run the cleanest install seasons. Event calendar: Saturday brewery foot traffic stacks against weekday Avondale Park spillover, UAB enrollment of 22,000 plus 25,000 hospital staff rotate through the Five Points South corridor daily across the academic year, and the Honda Indy Grand Prix at Barber in April pulls a regional automotive audience into Downtown.
From the field · Birmingham & beyond
Proof · Printed in-house · Installed by our crew
Put your brand on Birmingham streets.
Send the brand, the neighborhoods, and the dates. We come back with a wall count, a Birmingham route map, and a scoped quote in 24–48 hours.
- Quote in under 24 hours
- No discovery call. The brief is the call.
- Printing & Installation under one roof
Brief us · Birmingham quote in 24–48h
Start your Birmingham campaign.
Cross the city line.
Birmingham briefs regularly extend into the rest of Alabama. Same operator contract, same field log, different ZIP code. Pick a sibling market and we route the brief in 48 hours.
What the brief actually costs.
BSM publishes per-discipline floors, no RFP gatekeeping. Every Birmingham brief starts from the same published rate card. Permits and scaffold pass through at cost, no agency markup.
Wheatpaste posters
Walls, scaffolds, hoardings · 7-10d leadFrom $3,500Sidewalk stencils
Permitted corners · biodegradable medium · 14-21d weather windowFrom $2,500Snipes + stickers
Poles, utility boxes, news boxes · corridor saturationFrom $3,000Expedited
24-72h brief-to-install on any format above · Birmingham crews on standby+80-150%+Ranges vary by turnaround, size, location count, and service mix. Murals $18k-$65k+. Final quote in 24-48h.
Buyer questions.
What Birmingham brand managers ask on intake calls. Permit reality, lead time, minimums, photo proof. If your question isn't here, brief us directly.
Q · 01 Is wheatpasting legal in Birmingham?
Yes, on private property with the owner's written consent, which we secure in writing before a single sheet goes up on Avondale's brick or Lakeview's bar walls. City poles, BJCTA transit, and federal right-of-way are public infrastructure and stay untouched. The Civil Rights District carries federal heritage-site sensitivity, so we hold a four-block buffer with zero paste-up around 16th Street Baptist and Kelly Ingram Park, and Sloss Furnaces sits under its own federal jurisdiction we don't work.
Q · 02 How does the crew handle the Civil Rights District?
A hard four-block buffer, no paste-up, no pole stickers, no stencils anywhere near 16th Street Baptist Church, Kelly Ingram Park, or the Civil Rights Institute. Those blocks carry federal heritage-site sensitivity and brand work has no place on them. Downtown campaigns get routed around the district entirely, running the 2nd Avenue North and Morris Avenue corridors instead, with the buffer treated as a fixed constraint we plan the map around.
Q · 03 How much does a Birmingham campaign cost?
A Birmingham wheatpaste run opens at $3,500 with printing and installation both baked in, no separate print bill. Stringing multiple neighborhoods together, say Avondale into Lakeview, Forest Park, and Five Points South, climbs from that floor, priced on print volume and crew days rather than whose name is on the poster. Anything brushing the Civil Rights District buffer gets a route-planning pass folded in at no charge, since the buffer is non-negotiable. We turn a firm quote around in 24 to 48 hours.
Q · 04 Which neighborhoods give the strongest paste-up read?
Avondale's 41st Street South brick is the strongest read, breweries, spirits, lifestyle, and independent music land there first. Lakeview's 29th Street runs the bar-and-restaurant crowd, while Forest Park's Clairmont Avenue carries residential-adjacent lifestyle retail. Five Points South reaches the UAB campus and medical audience, Downtown covers office and convention along 2nd Avenue North, and Mountain Brook's retail blocks are the wealth-adjacent pick for premiere automotive and luxury.
Q · 05 How long does a Birmingham campaign take to launch?
Standard Avondale or Lakeview runs take seven to fourteen days from creative lock to the first sheet on the wall. Downtown work that has to thread around the Civil Rights District buffer adds a day or two for the property-clearance pass. June-through-August humidity slows the cure, so crews move to dawn install windows or lean on interior placements, and either way GPS-stamped photos land within a day or two of install, with daily logs running the whole time the campaign is up.
Got a corner in Birmingham?
We've got the paste.
Tell us the neighborhood, the dates, and the brand. Birmingham-mapped install plan back in 24-48 hours.